Honestly I had trouble coming up with the biggest mistake I made, because I made so many of them while launching our first software product in 2014. Perhaps I’ll do another article with all the mistakes I made if I’m in the mood to relive the pain.

To give you a little background on our company, we specialize in custom software development for kiosks and self-service applications. Our niche is retail and bill-payment kiosk applications.

A common part of the custom solutions we deliver include kiosk lockdown software which is essentially a security product to prevent malicious users from tampering with Windows and ensure the correct content is always displayed on the kiosk screen.

We’d been using the “other guys” kiosk lockdown software since about 2007 and I had the brilliant idea to create our own product which we’d bundle with our projects. Aside from the fact that I didn’t correctly anticipate the amount of development work involved (it took us about three years to code) I made what I’d consider to be my biggest mistake.